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Ezekiel 37:1-10: “The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them,…Continue

“I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored, from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full…Continue

Hamas warned Israel: “We Love Death More Than You Love Life.” Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said “We are going to win, because they love life and we love death,” Two years before he killed…Continue

Quote from Theo Van Gogh publicizing his book one year before his assassination by a Muslim extremist.“This book is called 'Allah Knows Best' because it is my dark suspicion that the new Middle Ages…Continue

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"Analyze the text of the world's religions? It is the same as analyzing the Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter stories,or even Mickey Mouse cartoons. Admittedly the bible has more violence than all of them together but to study…"

"Hi Simon, I can only contact you through this discussion. What happened to Bill C's comment on my discussion "UNICORNS IN THE BIBLE"? It has been deleted. I don't know that much about how Think Atheist works so…"

"Hi Bill. I can certainly agree we shouldn't take one person's view as representative of the whole. Please put forth your own viewpoint and (hopefully) it shall be discussed on its own merits.
P.S. I'm a big football fan."

"Stephen, I've heard from a few biblical literalists and their rigidity persuaded me that feeling uncomfortable with the contradictions requires more mental ability than reading.
If neurologists have done any brain scans on such people, I would…"

Ezekiel 37:1-10: “The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?' I said, 'O Sovereign LORD, you alone know.' Then he said to me, 'Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!’ This is what the…See More

"Hey folks, we are here because our pond scum ancestors were big and gobbled their small neighbors.
The smallest and weakest survivors consoled themselves with stories of happy future lives.
Other survivors invented democracy.
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"Unseen - I'm not sure doing something because we've always done it is a sound basis for foreign policy. How long should we stay that course? Under what conditions do you think it would be a bad idea to continue supporting Israel?"

"Erock68la - It's true that a lot of fundamentalist conservative Christians have the belief you described, you're a long way from demonstrating that that is what drives US policy re: Israel rather than the original commitment to form the…"

"During the most recent ceasefire Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian chloride at gunpoint to stand in windows while Israeli snipers hiding behind the children killed their neighbors in front of them.
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I was always interested in religion as history and not as a faith, believing in supernatural beings.

Age

71-76

Relationship Status

Married

Why are you here?

To convince agnostics to become atheists.

The religion you left

Christian

Why you left your religion.

Growing up as a Protestant, going to Sunday school and church I learned a lot about Christianity and the bible. I paid attention but never really took anything I learned very seriously. As I grew up I became interested more in the history of Christianity that in the faith of it. The more I learned the more I could see that Christianity and all religions were created by humans throughout the ages. So here I am with the rest of you who have gotten here through our own personal ways and experiences.

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For all those who have replied to: UNICORNS IN THE BIBLE and THE FAITHFUL AND THE BIBLE, being two, I have an interesting proposal. The replies kept coming with the most interesting comments, knowledgeable, surprising and strange. I learned a lot from many of them.

I have written a book that has been a long time in publishing but it is finally…